Charities have rounded on Tory MP Craig Whittaker — the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on children in care — after he took to Twitter to distribute a joke about Jimmy Savile and child abuse [FULL STORY]:

It’s going down to the wire in your marginal constituency … time to crack out the Jimmy Savile jokes! One might imagine that chairing the parliamentary group on Looked After Children and Care Leavers might be enough to give Craig Whitttaker pause.

A Conservative MP has admitted that parliamentary staff airbrushed his Wikipedia page to remove damaging but factual information, including misleading his constituents on the future of their local A&E department — and an arrest for allegedly assaulting his own son. After Scrapbook drew attention to the edits to Craig Whittaker’s page in January, the Calder Valley MP has now issued the […]

A Tory MP has staged a bizarre roof top protest after failing to secure money for a local school. While Conservatives freely admit that the government is directing taxpayers’ cash at marginal seats, out-of-favour Whittaker saw pleas to fix a water-damaged school in his constituency fall on deaf ears. Touring Calder High School with Whittaker six months before the last general […]

It seems there are still Commons staff (or indeed MPs) who don’t realise that anonymous edits to Wikipedia from within the parliamentary estate can be tracked. There is even a Twitter account dedicated to doing precisely that. In the latest cack-handed attempt at airbrushing, one parliamentary pass holder took exception to the mention of Robert Walter MP’s support for the […]

A Tory MP has used a debate about the NHS to boast about the size of his walk-in wardrobe — saying it is the same size as the staffroom at a local hospital. Craig Whittaker made the comment after a leaked report revealed that yet more drastic cuts could be on the way for hospitals in the local area. […]

Tory MP Craig Whittaker has come out against same sex marriage. Along with his statements that equality will lead to polygamy, three-way marriages and “who knows what else”, he says: “Marriage has a unique place in our society. It is a bedrock institution and the most stable environment for raising children. Redefining marriage would make marriage adult-centred rather […]

When it comes to transport, could there be an outbreak of one-upmanship amongst coalition MPs? While the conflicted Simon Hughes is escorted round Bermondsey in a bright yellow taxi bearing his name, Calder Valley MP Craig Whittaker drives round with his own face emblazoned across his car. The sporty Peuguot coupe, which Scrapbook understands to be a […]